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Edsby in New Zealand

Edsby in New Zealand

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Posted on by Dallas Kachan

The country of New Zealand is making the Edsby social learning platform for K-12 available for each of its 2,500 K-12 schools. How did New Zealand’s Ministry of Education come to select Edsby for its own use, and that of every educator, student and parent in the land? What is the country using Edsby for today? And what are its plans for the system? Edsby’s Dallas Kachan speaks with Edsby Managing Director of Asia Pacific Michael Middlemiss.

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Dallas Kachan
Dallas Kachan

Dallas Kachan is VP of Marketing at Edsby. He has led, worked with or consulted to dozens of technology firms in Silicon Valley and Canada over thirty years. He was the original vice president of sales and marketing for SoftArc, developers of FirstClass, credited as one of the first internet-based LMSes. Dallas was managing director and head of global marketing for the Cleantech Group, the organization that founded the cleantech investment theme, and served on the board of the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business’ Cleantech Institute. He is the author of the travel and adventure novel, The Starship Diaries.